One week after a turnover-riddled season-opening 24-21 setback to Brookville, which ended its 26-game winning streak, two-time defending Group AA, Division 4 state champion Amherst’s football team regrouped with a 42-6 victory at Charlottesville on Aug. 29. Tonight, the Lancers travel to former Western District rival GW-Danville, which advanced to the Northwest Region championship game last year.

Jamison Robinson may be little, at 5-foot-7, 160 pounds, but the Altavista senior tailback packs a powerful punch with the football in his hands.

Jefferson Forest vs. E.C. Glass, 7 p.m. City Stadium

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RUSTBURG — The first two weeks were unfortunate for Rustburg. Friday night? Just downright cruel.

E.C. Glass spoiled former Pioneer and current astronaut Leland Melvin’s return by slipping past Heritage, 43-36, in over-time Friday at City Stadium.

SALEM — Brookville ended Salem’s 35-game regular-season winning streak and dealt the Spartans their first shutout loss in 153 games — dating back to 1996 when coach Jeff Woody helped the Bees blank them 21-0 as a senior receiver — with a 14-0 triumph Friday night at Salem Stadium.
Sparked by running back Stacy Houston, who rushed 19 times for 143 yards and both touchdowns, Brookville (3-0) eliminated some of the Salem mystique that has made it almost unbeatable at home.

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Liberty Christian Academy wide receiver Patrick Kelly has a God-given ability to go up in a crowd and come down with the football in his hands, often in the end zone.

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Back in 1996, Brookville’s football team traveled to Salem for the first time and came away 21-0 winners.

The Spartans went on to capture their first of three Group AA, Division 4, state championships of the 90s that season, beating Sherando 20-12, while the Bees lost in their first Division 3 state final appearance, 7-0 to James Monroe.

Tonight at Salem Stadium, Salem will host Brookville in an early-season battle between two teams eyeing Division 4 and Division 3 state playoff berths.

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Tonight’s 6:30 p.m. game between city rivals E.C. Glass and Heritage High will be the 45th meeting between the two schools. It also will be the last time the two teams will take the field with bragging rights being the only thing on the line as the Hilltoppers will be joining the Pioneers in the Seminole District next season.

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Unleashing a new triple-option offense implemented by first-year coach Ben Martin, a former assistant at Amherst, Appomattox’s football team passed its first test, beating Buckingham 26-6 Friday night at home despite passing the ball just three times.

Baron Adams’ return sparked William Campbell to its first victory of the season.

The senior quarterback threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more as the Generals swamped Sussex Central 41-0 Friday night

As if the unbearable humidity wasn’t enough to make Rockbridge’s game against Jefferson Forest miserable, the Cavaliers made sure the Wildcats knew they were going to be in for a long Friday night on the first play.

Rockbridge wide receiver JaQwan Biggs came in motion across the formation and took a handoff from quarterback Tyler Staton.

When Biggs saw that he couldn’t get to the sideline, he turned up field where he was met with a crushing blow from Forest linebacker Tyler Rosser.

“You always say the first play of the game is going to indicative of how the game is going to go,” Cavaliers coach Don Rice said. “There were some hits out there tonight.”

The Wildcats seemed in a fog the rest of the night and Jefferson Forest rumbled to a 40-6 victory.

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A year ago, Jefferson Forest’s football team edged Rockbridge 7-6 in a defensive-oriented standoff in Lexington.

Tonight, when the Cavaliers play host to the 2006 Group AA, Division 3 state runner-up Wildcats at 7:30, the rematch could just as easily turn into an offensive slugfest.

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Brookville was able to rise to the challenge of beating Amherst, 24-21, on its home turf Friday night before a huge partisan crowd at Lancers Stadium.

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NARUNA — If Jonthan Hinson is raw, William Campbell coach Brad Bradley doesn’t want to see what the Thomasville junior looks like when he actually gets a little experience at tailback.
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In a season opener with huge implications in the Seminole District race, Brookville proved it could win a big game in a hostile environment, Friday night at Amherst. The Bees’ 24-21 triumph, which ended two-time defending Group AA, Division 4, state champion Amherst’s 26-game winning streak and spoiled coach Cecil Phillips’ debut, pivoted on two big plays and two fourth-quarter, fourth-down defensive stops.
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RUSTBURG — Heritage showed its youth on Friday in a hard-fought 12-7 victory over Rustburg.
The Pioneers, who return just one starter on offense and five on defense, committed 13 penalties and fumbled five times, losing two, but still managed to grind out a win in the season opener for both teams.

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When he was little — about half his current height of 6-foot-6 and a quarter his weight of 235 pounds — Logan Thomas would wait intently for his grandfather, Cliff Thomas, to take him outside and play ball.
Now, all eyes are on Thomas, Brookville’s senior quarterback and safety who has developed into one of the nation’s most prized college receiving prospects, ranked No. 24 in the nation and first among tight ends by Rivals.com.

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William Campbell football coach Brad Bradley is never one to shun a challenge. So when it comes time to fill the Generals’ non-district schedule, he’ll play up in classification and travel out of state if necessary to test his team’s mettle early on.

Amherst first-year football coach Cecil Phillips will be baptized into the Seminole District by fire tonight when the Lancers host Brookville in a season-opening clash between two of the area’s preseason favorites.
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